Travel Blogs from Sanliurfa

... weekend) to land. After a lot of squealing and bear hugs, the three of us hit the road and drove two hours to Sanliurfa, arriving a little after 11 p.m., exhausted by all of the travel yet energized by the reunion. Until 1984, Sanliurfa was simply "Urfa." ...

... Read: are you checking it out for some kind of attack?) It seems the beard is almost working better than it should. A Sanliurfa resident says Turkey has the headwaters, the control, and Iraq has the oil. Why don't they trade resources? Good question. What ...

... of Swords Valley.
After walking back to town I stopped at Yama Travel and signed up for a 3-day trip to Eastern Turkey to see Mt. Nemrut and Sanliurfa. It was an expensive package (US$125), but it was all-inclusive and covered a lot of ground, and it ...